Antarctica

First, people who qualify to 'winter-over' on the continent must pass rigorous physical and mental evaluations.

The darkness gives humans the ability to adapt. Lights are lowered, sounds are softened, other senses are heightened. Metabolic rates are lowered, healing takes longer. While work performance doesn't suffer measurably, some people simply slow down.

The Antacrtic Treary was created in 1959, and it was signed in Washington. It was created to ensure the saftey of the 5th largest continent in the world, Antartica. Basically that's why it was called, 'The Antarctic Treaty'

Generally, food disappears when it is eaten. Otherwise, a food cache may be covered by wind-blown ice crystals and hidden from sight.

The most obvious problem that Antarctica will face in the upcoming years is the melting of the polar ice caps. The threat of global warming also looms, but whether or not it is an actual problem remains to be proven.

Antarctica has a larger land mass. Its actual land mass covers about 15.4 million square kilometres, or 7 million square miles. Australia's area is around 7,686,850 sq km, and it is the smallest continent.

no, underneath all the ice is land, just like what we walk on today no, underneath all the ice is land, just like what we walk on today edited by Danielle Robertson 5/3/2009 no, underneath all the ice is land, just like whatwe walk on today edited by Danielle Robertson 5/3/2009

This is from the Seaworld website. Otters are widely distributed. They are found on all continents except Australia and Antarctica.
No they do not. Otters of some species can be found on every continent except Australia and Antarctica. Sea otters are found in Alaska and other Northern climes, as well as Tierra del Fuego in the extreme Southern South America

The Antarctic treaty does not allow any country to own or exploit the minerals beneath the icecap of this continent. It is to remain pristine in perpetuity, even sled dogs are banned.

Thanks so much for that ^^ Its a big help to my big geography project!

Your query contains several assumptions that are incorrect.

Summer and winter in Antarctica are seasons that last the same number of days as do these seasons everywhere in the Southern Hemisphere.

'Six months' may be the period of no sunrise/ sunset, which is true for the South Pole. Otherwise, this period is at least one 24-hour period at the Antarctic Circle.

The coal deposits in Antarctica are explained by Pangaea where Antarctica was located next to South America, Africa, Australia, and India.

The wind in Antarctica blows all the time, and blizzards are quite common.

Sleeping bags and tents work nicely for sleeping in Antarctica, if you are an explorer.

The ice sheet that covers 98% of the Antarctic continent contains about 60% of the earth's fresh water, according to Wikipedia.

Early explorers used ships as their exploration vehicles. Both polar ocean waters are filled with icebergs and sailing in them is not only dangerous but extremely cold. Until the technology -- reinforced hulls, for example -- supported expeditions into these extreme situations, Antarctica could not reached.

Antarctica covers about 10% of the earth's surface and is counted among the seven continents on earth. In European schools, its often taught that there are only six continents, joining North and South America into a single continent.

The angle in which the earth is tilted towards the Sun, makes Arctic receiving Sunlight for major part of the year than Antarctic. As Antarctic receives light only fewer months/days the source of food is not abundant than Arctic. Also from the past maybe, As the continent(Antarctic) is alone, it's not possible for the new creatures to get migrated as in the case of Arctic. During ice age creatures from Asia, Europe & Americas had a chance to migrate to Arctic & we could fnd those migrated, adapted and survived to Arctic climatic conditions. So Arctic have more life than Antarctic.

You may be able to find a tour boat that will take you from Christchurch, New Zealand to Antarctica. Otherwise, you can charter a private, reinforced-hull ship to take you to your Antarctic destination.

When carefully controlled and monitored, tourism to Antarctica expands the knowledge about the wonder of the continent by making it a reality to more people.

Tour operators that are members of the International Association of Antarctic Tour operators acknowledge the potential damage to the continent and its breeding animals, and work to mitigate the impact of their tours to preserve the pristine environment.


Because The Antarctic Treaty governs all human activity south of 60 degrees south latitude, tourism can be regulated this way.


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The name of the super continent was Gondwanna (sometimes as Gondwana). When it broke up, Australia and the other southern continents split from each other.

And the Indian sub-continent headed off in a roughly northern direction to collide with Asia and create the Himalayas, which are still growing.

At an earlier time, the Northern super continent and the Southern one were believed to be one super continent, Pangaea. The northern collection of continents and major islands was Laurasia, and the Southern one Gondwanna.

Yes, in fact there are whole families living on Antarctica. The first baby born on the continent was to an Argentinian woman in the late seventies.

No. Continents have wandered over millions of years.

Antarctica has been hot.